Americans are abandoning organized religion in droves. Data from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that while only 7 percent of Americans were raised outside a religious tradition, nearly 19 percent are religiously unaffiliated today.

After watching four hours of its programming and even despite my own lack of religious belief, I find it hard to imagine that even a casual nonbeliever would tune in, let alone someone on the fence about the existence of a higher power.

Morally speaking, ought you to believe in God or not? The 19th-century English mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford spoke of the 'ethics of belief': you ought to believe only that for which you have good grounds.

There's no genuine coverage of the actual movement. There is no broader understanding given of atheism as a worldview, of the secular movement, of the new breath of life given atheism by the New Atheists. Just one ceremony, conveniently full of costumes..